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Rain Man

This is my hubby. We met through a dating service. He was my 11th match. I was his 1st. I continued to date people after we met....he didn't. We don't really make sense "on paper", but we make perfect sense in real life!

D-Man

This is my first born. He is funny, smart, sarcastic and obsessed with baseball. He loves his baby sisters and they know it and can get him to do almost anything for them!

A-Girl

A-Girl is my oldest girl, my first C-Section and likes a lot of the same things I do. She is turning into a teenager in front of my nervous eyes. We bond watching So You Think You Can Dance, Project Runway and Design Star.

L-Girl

L-Girl is my second girl. She is a lot like her father. Full of energy and ideas. I can occassionally talk her into bonding over a dancing show, but she would rather be off running around doing other things.

A-Man

This little dude is not easily forgotten by anyone who meets him. He has lots and lots and lots of energy and lots and lots and lots of ideas of things to try and just see what happens. Usually the results get him and trouble and then Mom and Dad laugh behind closed doors.

S-Girl

This little peanut looks just like me when I was her age. She is A-Man's partner in crime. She has every male in our house wrapped around her cute little pinkie.

V-Girl

This is my baby. She has been walking since 9 months and has been a lot of fun and trouble ever since. She is a jolly baby who has all of us wrapped around her chubby little finger.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

He is....but he is a little sweetheart too. He recently told his little sister not to say that mom was fat because it would make her sad. He is right. It would make me sad.

He is also smart. I am not sure yet if it is "book" smart or "street" smart though.

Since the time he was really little, he has had a way of working around the rules - not in a malicious way, but in a way, where he has thought things out and, while twisting them a bit - finds a way to basically follow my rules.

Here is an example:

It has always been a rule in our house, that you do not say "Shut Up!". It was the rule when I was growing up too. It just sounds rude. Anyway, when he was about 2...maybe 3....when he would get upset at a sibling...he would shout... "Shut the Door Up!" He said it with the same tone of voice someone would normally use when they were telling someone to actually Shut Up. The kicker came when he was questioned about it. He matter of factly stated, that I had said that they couldn't say "Shut Up"....not, "Shut the Door Up".

Here is another one....this one too started when he was about 2 or 3:

Another rule in our house is that you do not call anybody else in the household "stupid".

Leave it to A-man to find a way around that one too.

When he thought they deserved it, he would call them.....Stuart. Yup, Stuart. Imagine it said in the same derisive tone as the word "stupid" and you have got it. Again, when questioned, he replied with, "You never said we couldn't say Stuart!"

This kind of creative thinking has turned into a very funny little guy....

Like the time I asked him to help me get dinner ready and get the bag of chicken breasts out of the freezer. He replied, "Oh, you mean the chicken boobs?" I am not even sure how he figured out in his 6 years on this earth that breasts and boobs are the same thing - but it was funny.

Here is one final A-man story for the day. Our neighbor recently got married to a very nice man.

In May, the 13th fell on a Friday. A-man said, " Oh, no, our neighbor is going to put on a mask and come get us....with an axe!" First of all, let me assure you he was joking. He didn't really think our neighbor was going to come get us. Let me also assure you that none of my children have seen any of the Friday the 13th movies. I, myself, have only partially seen one of them - through my fingers at a 9th grade slumber party ( and My Bloody Valentine.....yuck....oh, how I wish I could erase the snippets of those movies from my mind....oh, be careful little eyes what you see....oh, be careful little ears what you hear......)

Anyway, can you guess our neighbor's new husband's name?

Yup.....Jason!

Gotta love that kid!

He actually comes up with new ones almost every day - but some would get lost in translation. All of them make me wonder what he is going to be when he grows up and how we can harness his mind and this skill for good, not evil!